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claims of fieri break out with renewed vigor across egypt as protests continue to vent their anger against islamist president mohamed mursi. leaders patched together a new budget that's left states seemingly more divided than before with the european parliament threatening to talk the entire deal. british police take to the web looking for tips on serving coffee walking a government bad for parliament country workers who stand to work more than many front line offices. and with the bahraini pro-reform uprising about to market second anniversary activists say the daily protests are prompting harsher responses from the authorities.
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broke arsing life lost two years in moscow this is our. now egypt is once again buckling amid renewed violence which is sweeping the country thousands of people have taken to the streets to vent their fury against the ruling is the mists in the capital cairo angry crowds understands and petrol bombs attacked the presidential palace faced a tough police response on this now from our correspondent. they were violent scenes out front of the presidential palace two groups attempted to storm the building with mona talks and actually take asked by the security forces who also fired to rule to come into them however the clashes have really been more violence outside of the capital we've had reports also clashes with security forces and anti-government protesters in alexandria. a time to shake with a possible death the income for sake of that yet to be confirmed as people are
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really feeling quite a lot to gain here in the country in two weeks on now from the anniversary of the january twenty five five are going to and they said nothing has changed in the country in the last two years this is the key issues have yet to be faced by the president including police reform the shortage of bread and fuel and of course the constitution which protesters say was drafted by an islamist dominated the situation really pushed through by the president in the last week there's been a lot of and i'm off to there was footage through cost from last friday's protest from the presidential palace of a protest being dragged naked and brutally beaten and in addition there was a young protest from trying to accommodate again the who reportedly died in custody from torture people activists human rights groups have been saying this is a key grievance against them a dark regime that shouldn't be happening now in a place revolution presidents the biggest opposition coalition the national salvation front for that part of sticking by their demands which is asking the
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tough in it to resign if they want enough so salvation government and the constitution to be revoked if this happens then they said they will have dialogue with the president president isn't moving on the street issues so we're looking at a divided egypt continuing in the near future. similar scenes have erupted in tunisia the birthplace of the arab spring which brought islamists had to power there as well but ashes between anti regime protesters and police have marred the funeral of an opposition politician whose murder led to a brand new wave of unrest and violence flared up outside the cemetery as angry mobs threw stones and set cars on fire this responded with tear gas the capital tunis has also been gripped by a national strike and into the tell which want to solve its beds is unlikely to be resolved in time soon. to loose is ensuring a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing government in arrangements for holding
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and a massive disk critique of the way in which they operate i think there are signs that this could easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war only hopefully it won't happen and we remain to watch to see how the popular movements organize to prevent this one of those frightening thing is the amount of external support for example by the qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be seen whether we've got the present government will take any action against these terrorist groups. so heavily armed and dangerous an ex cop hands decorated military man turns against the los angeles police department legibly killing three people and sparking a major manhunt or promising more bloodshed. nobody's perfect budget that's how the e.u.'s new spending plan has been described after the blocks that leaders couple together they need
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a seven year occasion nine hundred sixty billion package of the first time the european union. since the block's inception the deal was sealed after twenty five hours of intense idling some comparing it to a bizarre well leading the charge for cuts was britain backed by some northern european states and resistance though from a coalition of nations by france the french president francois hollande apparently refusing to even meet british pm david robert but it's not yet a done deal skeptical european parliament deputies are threatening to sink it vote . constitutionally there well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already you politick to said he won't be able to support the steel and the head of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group there is said there are likely to be supported so it's going to be rocky right i think this budget over the next few months cameron's
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right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of wrangler merkel in particular so he can you can try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. david cameron may be claiming victory in brussels but best sickly while the issue is refusing to go away investigation into rate fixing at banks in britain and beyond is expanding the
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revelations over just how widespread the practice was if the nations that have left auntie's max keiser exasperated. avoided the word for today just just for variety i mean if i thought the t. word is being prosecuted in this country or america i would imagine if i thought that our drone sent up a strange frank jenkins over at barclays bank and exploded innocent passengers splattered on the wall i thought that would have any effect if i thought the governor would give a flying shit about their own population i would imagine that the word but i don't know because they don't. if you are a british soldier or a police officer on the beat you may have an easier time and more money by serving coffee in the houses of parliament and you heard the recruiting coffee shop workers is causing controversy among the public and create the seemingly disproportionate salary which is pretty boy because the story. the house of commons is looking
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for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically so hot fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman who studies have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds a year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people who are detecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians one of the police federation representatives took to twitter to ask where they could apply for such a nice restraint job in parliament because it's obviously a lot safer and it's paying more than some of the frontline police offices but i
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spoke to the former editor of the police tribute to find out what the morale all is like among the police officers amidst these revelations well morale is already rock bottom amongst police officers when you arises because of the attacks on their pay and conditions of their pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us made coffee themselves and let's not let's remember that the coffee they have will be heavily subsidized by us the taxpayers a lot of people's wages being either frozen or slashed just like the police officer says we hit the streets of london a little bit earlier to find out whether people in london think that someone who serves coffee to politicians should be making more money than a front line police officer let's take a look at my coffee twenty grand commons where do i saw it. going so i'll just go there from washington research coffee give me the most is. it properly no sir i
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said drinks night again tonight is basically a kick in the growing because they're just being ridiculous and advertisers should be ashamed of themselves for doing so that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary briggs and of course not critics saying that with the austerity measures we buy thing for a lot of people in the u.k. and politicians have made with a capsule of boiling water and some instant coffee. on the service and duty but no reward you carry bans it's world war two veterans from receiving russian medals honoring the bravery and convoys saying that time to them is out. for skepticism and mistrust has prevalent in bahrain talks between the opposition and the government set to resume on sunday and that breaking the political deadlock activists blame the authorities for gagging the voices of protest officials insist
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they've made more than enough concessions. reports now on freedom of speech on the back of its bahrain. if you look through any pro-government newspaper in bahrain you'll get an impression that the government has nothing to hide the news of an uprising of the opposition is dominating the front page and if you look through it you'll see other stories about the political discourse in the country the country's information minister insists bahrain has no problems with people speaking out what it is that freedom of expression in our brain is very high because it is guaranteed by the constitution moreover there is a law to be issued soon that further guarantees it we have a problem related to banning some websites but that's to protect bahrain from six year in ethnic problems and violence only and not for any other reason. but this is what happened when we tried several opposition websites having looked through these pages later we did not notice any extremist overtones and so you see
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from bahrain center for human rights believes the government is deliberately attempting to silence views different to its own center for a moderate which i work for website is a blog we have almost more than four hundred website out of block or more than most of them are human rights. political website although of certain beheaded our block we have only facebook and twitter there are many which is not the blog. sayed spoke to us on the back over two week prison term for what was called breaking the law on public gatherings several weeks later he was arrested again the editor in chief of bahrain's only independent newspaper says this is how things are in his country if you speak out if you express yourself you are expressing yourself at all at your own risks people are brave enough now to speak out but they do that and they could
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be punished one day you could be put in jail it could end up like a builder job three years because of you tweeted something social networking came of age during the uprisings of recent years a fact not lost on bahrain's leaders who have watched almost daily street protests and an unusual drop in web traffic through the country picked up by an american internet morning tour leaves human rights activists here wondering exactly who the constitutional right to expression really applies to alexi russia of ski r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. phares the end of an era as politics threatens to blast to us space like on the into obscurity disagreements between russia and kazakhstan might see the iconic. the first man into space becoming nothing more than a forgotten memory borne that often short break. there
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are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty percent of those patients are diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. be a lot less human suffering. the
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los angeles police department has launched its largest ever manhunt top to a former officer turned against them the search for christopher dorner suspected of killing three people and spread to three u.s. states in northern mexico thousands of police officers are involved in the operation. or is believed to be well trained in heavily armed well facebook he posted a manifesto declaring war on the l.a.p.d. and some forty people on his hitlist also accusing the department of internal corruption racism and concealment of excessive force michel roux put let's get a journalist and a former l.a.p.d. officer himself says there are many skeletons in the and he's closet. i don't
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condone what's happened and i want to violence and killing to end but more important i want him to be brought in alive which is something i do not think that l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances with regard to his specific allegations about his case and i'm currently reviewing legal documents that are becoming available online i have to tell you that with regard to his allegations about a rich trial board hearings and. very egregious unprofessional cover up excessive force but also management mouth to mouth these perjury and a lot of other serious things i believe in one hundred percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown has a consistent cultural problem with racism coverup and cronyism within the department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i lead for similar reasons. it appears a medal is too much to ask for according to the u.k.
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which is refusing its veterans russia known as bosco wants to reward british choose for bravery and well tortie specifically say those who guarded critical convoys that supply the u.s.s.r. as a teaser nicholas cripple its that's not something you kate government is willing to allow. imagine doing a service to a foreign country during a time of war risking your life going through unimaginable hardships all in the name of helping you know like you imagine that country wanting to reward you with a medal of honor and then imagine your own government refused to allow you to accept that medal for rather ambiguous reasons that's precisely what's happening to several hundred veterans in the u.k. the russian government wanted to award them the medal for their service in the arctic convoy during world war two but the foreign and commonwealth office has refused the request saying that they appreciate the move from moscow but they simply cannot be granted because current rules dictates foreign medals can only be
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accepted within five years of the events occurring but the british government is promising to soon create a medal to honor u.k. troops who participated in the arctic convoys now the convoys have delivered thousands of anti tank guns and fighter planes to the u.s.s.r. between one hundred forty one in one thousand nine hundred five the route to went from north america iceland and the u.k. it's made you look simple enough on the map but it was anything but that the congo is were constantly attacked by german u. boats ships and planes and wouldn't humans avoid the problem the convoys often filled victim to the horrendous storms in the icy cold waters of the arctic that was some seventy years ago and many of the veterans feel they may not live to see the day the u.k. very wards them with its old version of the metal and for some there is a feeling of bitterness feeling they are being refused a medal of what they truly deserve or tycho why not just from
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a bold mothership might polish them brazen enough to may. thought we were what we could we're made to do we went to a good job. oh nothing that. was always on mushroom convoys i know another. guy on the group geo you know mother ship might know all there was a governmental has been created to reward those fighting at sea for bravery it's one of the highest military decoration in russia its importance as such but it has been retained from the soviet union era because of the madly two defeats it was awarded for so there are shoes a will to let a foreign government honor their service in the greatest war of modern history makes veterans wonder what's behind the reason if it had been america through all of this medal which are all may not served on the american idol when i was in shanghai and china cities but. how many sorry they were to offer me
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a medal what would be to their written the government's response to that. for their parts many british veterans such as john seemed open and receptive to the idea of a medal coming from russia while the owner did yes just to have possession and so have a few years ago left if a few years. and it down to meet children we grant you a mean surprise procession to may just not only bad to us but it's coming from russia this will be extra special but unfortunately in their decision making process it appears the u.k. government did not consider the feelings of its country's veterans. as members of a radical feminist group gets naked in berlin just how far should women go to fight for a cause. would you do it well maybe you are not but the friends
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girlfriend do it more often than american girls i think so. this week laurie hartness asked whether women should get naked to attract wanted attention from. a massive police raid in russia's second largest city of st petersburg has uncovered and ledge the extremist group of almost three hundred people members have been arrested after being suspected of calling for terrorist acts and inciting hatred according to russia's special forces in this leaders have been arriving to st louis because recently is to give lectures and spread extremist literature one of these lectures is among the detainees the social network page was found to contain videos of terrorist acts and addresses of extremist leaders from the north caucuses middle east. we have a more stories few on our website including caught on camera oscar's notorious self styled black devil is stopped by police of the two years of reckless driving around
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the city streets is finally brought to justice off the bragging online. also the ku klux klan is trying to make a comeback in america's south and find out why other groups leaders have turned their backs of thoughts is in many ways. it could be the end of an era for a legendary cosmodrome that saw the first man blasting off into space because differences between russia and kazakhstan led to rumors might stop renting baikonur to moscow not just on bart has a story. they call him the first the shooter anatoly has worked at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for fifty years he's the man who say blast off but now he's worried about political meddling in the spaceports future. we are living a normal life here so i believe they shouldn't try to fix something that's not broken since the end of the soviet union russia has rented baikonur from kazakstan
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but recently the head of the kazakh space agency annoyed by a lack of progress on a joint rocket project called for a halt to some of the launches allow them. indeed the number of heavy proton rockets allowed to launch in two thousand and thirteen has dropped from seventeen to twelve it's prompted behind the scenes wrangling with moscow demanding reimbursement expensive launch contracts are lost when those demands were leaked though both sides rushed to state there was no problem you go there is no scandal no sensation there's no divorce between cuz it's stan and russia on the subject of the baikonur cosmodrome however as russia's foreign minister pointed out there is a question mark over baikonur what else that we need to address the issues as long as they arise that also refers to the questions arising about the number of launches this was the place from where yuri gagarin became the first man in space
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and for now both russia and kazakhstan both have an interest in continued launches from baikonur but with russia building a new cosmodrome in the far east that situation won't last for ever. rising out of the center of the vast kazakh step by can always always been a strange place whether our gate to the stars remains here or not it will always be from here that humankind first reached the cosmos tom bottom. of the radical feminist. again this time they've gone topless the new film festival to protest against female circumcision demonstrates his jump table but his people are security guards trying to quote a lot of attention along the way so if you've got it should you flaunt it for cools the distance lorry hopefulness to the streets of new york to find out what you think.
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a new york city it's legal for ladies to protest topless so where are the boobies this week let's talk about that that part of the body even though it's legal it's still private. but don't you think that would draw a lot of attention to the cause yeah but then again you know the tracks are all grow sometimes to what it attracts you they're. going to say. would you ever consider protesting topless for a reason yeah what would be the reason. you would go topless for that yeah would you do it well maybe you are not good but do you think french girls would do it more often than american girls i think so why is that what's wrong with the kind of crazy it would be
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a way to get he was attention but i personally wouldn't do it maybe someone knows and i mean do you think that it would be little it was or help because. i don't know if he'll do it much it's will bring more awareness i guess people will look so it's not what protesting is all about. but let him out lady the bottom line is going topless is a sure fire way to bring attention to your cause so ladies you might want to consider that the next time you suit up for your big rally. coming up off the break we'll take an in-depth look at the impact of the eight side of the atlantic the african-american community in the u.s. .
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saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their hearts they secretly want but often they miss things like the fact that it was saudi women who ask for the segregation feeling uncomfortable while buying products from men according to a.f.p. you know some people in countries like saudi arabia or north korea might actually like living a radically different lifestyle and even if they don't like living that way well it is there.

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